A team of experts are working round the clock, keeping aside everything personal, to identify the remains of those who died in the fatal air plane crash in Ahmedabad and bring closure to their families.

Indian authorities have started handing over remains of the victims of one of India's worst aviation disasters after identifying some through DNA tests.

Dreamliner, bound for London, issued a mayday call shortly before it crashed around lunchtime on Thursday, bursting into a fireball as it hit residential buildings, in one of the worst plane disasters the country has seen.